Working 9 to 12 (review by Posner of ‘How Much Is Enough?’ by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky): “In recent years, England has become much more like the United States, but I well remember as recently as the 1980s how shabby England was, how terrible the plumbing, how shoddy the housing materials, how treacherously uneven the floors and sidewalks, how inadequate the heating and poor the food — and how tolerant the English were of discomfort.”

Helen Gurley Brown, Who Gave ‘Single Girl’ a Life in Full, Dies at 90: “She was 90, though parts of her were considerably younger… Perhaps none of these things — not the books, not the unabashed look of Cosmopolitan and its legion of imitators, not the giddy pleasure with which American women embraced sex without shame — would have happened quite as soon if Ms. Brown had heeded a single piece of advice. In 1962, just before “Sex and the Single Girl” was due to be published, she received a telegram from her mother. In an interview with CNN in 1998, Ms. Brown recalled its contents. “dear helen,” it read. “if you move very quickly, i think we can stop publication of the book.” “

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